Hundreds of people belonging to over 50 families have reverted to Sanatan Dharma in a ghar wapasi ceremony held on the last day of ‘Vanvasi Ram Katha’ and Maha Yagya in Kandari village of Chando in Balrampur district of Chhattisgarh on May 17.
Those who have made a comeback to the Sanatan fold had embraced other religions, mostly Christianity, under the influence of certain groups; however, they have now opted to return to the religion of their ancestors.
The ceremony was organised on the last day of Vanvasi Ram Katha, a nine-day program held in Kandari village of Chando around 35 kilometres from Balrampur, where Acharya Sadanand Ji Maharaj, a revered ‘Kathawachak’ from Vrindavan has arrived to give sermons based on the life of Bhagwan Sri Ram.
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prabal Judev was also among the attendees in the ceremony,, which witnessed a significant gathering of the locals and ghar wapasi of around 120 people hailing from 50 families.
Interacting with the media before the ghar wapasi ceremony, Judev, who organised scores of such ceremonies in recent years said that a “sacred program is being organized under Sadanand Ji Maharaj and around 50 families who were wrongly converted to the other religion by the means of inducement are willing to revert to the culture of their ancestors again.
We will welcome them with dignity, we will attach them again with their Sanatani ancestors, we will wash their feet, hug them and make them Sanatani again, added Judev.
It must be noted that the tribal dominated state of Chhattisgarh has been a victim of illegal conversion by means of lure, inducement and fallacy since long, where news pertaining to illegal conversion of tribal (Vanvasi) has been keep coming to the fore on regular intervals.
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However, the state has witnessed in recent years dozens of similar ghar wapasi ceremonies, under which thousands of people have reverted to the religion of their ancestors. Most of these people who made a comeback in their bona-fide religion are those whose families were lured into illegal conversion by the mission backed groups.
